Parents, no need to be perplexed any more about how to persuade your kids to eat their veggies and quit overdosing on soft drinks and other sugary foods. Acclaimed children’s obesity expert David Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D. can help you to help your kids.
In fact, if anyone can inspire you and your kids, Dr. Ludwig can do it. He’s director of the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Program at Children’s Hospital, Boston, one of the oldest and largest pediatric weight management programs for children in the country. Since 1996, he and his colleagues have cared for a whopping 5,000 overweight youngsters and their families.
What’s more, Dr. Ludwig – who has been featured in USA Today, and has appeared on a bunch of top TV and radio shows – can educate you so you empower your child to have fun losing weight, getting fit, and shunning those culprit carbs.
Anyhow, in Dr. Ludwig's new book, Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/Fake Food World, he offers an exciting, proven, nine-week program so that you can turn your children’s health around.
So, here are six pointers excerpted and adapted — with permission, of course — from Dr. Ludwig’s book, Ending the Food Fight.
1. Working together as a family, make a “Clean Sweep” of your home environment. First, empty your cupboards, cabinets, refrigerator, pantry, and other food storage areas where you keep sugary drinks, chips, cookies, candies, ice cream, refined crackers, and other “fake foods” that just don’t support your family’s health.
Now, toss away all the health-defeating fake food. (Don’t worry about being wasteful – the health costs of eating those commercially processed foods are far greater than the actual purchase price.) Next, go out as a family to grab a healthy lunch or afterwards do something fun outdoors like play miniature golf, take a trip to a water park or go for a hike. Then, later in the afternoon, shop together as a family and buy delicious and nutritious foods to replace all the fake foods that you’ve tossed out.
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